Right now, we have Founders and Lifetime Founders. Both get access to our internal vault of stuff. Lifetime Founders get everything we ever make for Star Control: Origins. Those who are standard Founders get Star Control: Origins and everything we release for a year after.

Development schedule

Our original release date was going to be November 2017. That's exactly 25 years from the release of Star Control 2 (The Ur-Quan Masters). Some design changes we made have extended the development time (which I'll be talking more about soon) but we will be releasing the Super Melee beta in time for the anniversary.

Some screenshots

Super Melee in action

In engine, animated, voice synced conversations with aliens and of course the commander of Star Control.

Design your own ships, share them, and fight with them either against the computer or your friends online or on the same PC.

The writing team, led by Cracked.com's Chris Bucholz, has a compelling sci-fi story that is also very much in the style you expect from a Star Control game.

We are working on a host of tools that will make it easy for people to create their own universes to share and play in.

Those who have played the original Star Control 2 have been waiting a loooong time for a worthy successor! Thanks for making this game, keep up the good work, and take your time to do it right! What's another year/two after 25 years!

This is such awesome news! I can't believe the game is finally happening after all these years. I played SC2 when I primary school back in the 90s and have been waiting so long! Just signed up to the Founders Program! Thanks so much for continuing a fantastic childhood legacy!

Hey guys - just a word of caution. I would much prefer you guys roll out a finished product, so please, take the time you need to "get things right"

We are in no hurry.

I do want people to start playing Super Melee. It will accomplish many goals. For one thing, I want Star Control to be able to run on a potato if necessary. Super Melee will help with that. Second, I really do think there's a market for people who just want to build a fleet of ships and battle them out.

Like many others, I think Super Melee on its own would have made a great stand alone game.

I didn't sign up with the founders back when it was announced. I finally cracked today. With the announcement of the sequel I felt I wanted to be a part of both teams and projects and support them fully. This was a huge part of my childhood and beginning of my PC gaming in the 90's. Really excited to sink back into this lore. Hello all you beautiful Hunams!

I signed up and bought the software when there still wasn't anything to download yet. Has this changed ? Will Stardock notify me when there is something to download and try out ? Will an email link be sent to me or will the download become available for me on Steam when it is ready ?

I was thinking that perhaps Stardock should contact the people behind the Axanar fan film to see if they could make a Star control film with the races characters and mythology of Star Control in order to generate interest for the game. Instead of telling the Klingon / Human war, perhaps they could tell the story of the struggle of the Alliance of Free Stars against the Ur Quan and thrall races.